Okay, am on my third version of a mockup for Edel's top. Third time's the charm, right?

Think I'll also cut out the pieces for rough draft of the WorldCon bodice while I've got the lining material out. I know it's not going to be right (it's a drop point waist and I'm going to be trying the Martha McCain ACW corset pattern, which isn't, but which will theoretically *give* me a waist as well as cup support), but I need to make it up before I can declare how it's wrong.

So, off to cut and sew!

Got three ideas in my head while driving home. The other two will probably be incorporated into something else, but this one, turning out as it did, I think doesn't quite fit with them.

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When they gave me a computer at work, they made sure to take all things fun off of it.

No Internet connection.

No games.

But they left me a word processing program....

Part one Here.

( The Rest )

Because Sandy is a genius and pointed out to me that "just because it's a tragic ending doesn't mean it's not a good ending," and thus changed the shape of this story.

( Lakeside )

I come to my desk in the middle of the morning with a stomach full of breakfast cereal and a pot of licorice mint tea. I've been blasting through Princess Tutu this week at the rate of a disc a day. I blame this both on the excellent AMV I saw at Fanime, and on the fact I have a Edel costume in the works. Unfortunately, this is going to come to an end after (if) I manage to purchase disc five today. Well, theoretically there are the fansubs around here somewhere so I can use those to get to the end of the story. The ends of stories being important things, you see, as Fakir is discovering.

Somehow I've also started fanficcing the series (despite not having reached its end, generally a bad idea). I already know some of what I've written will need changing and I have a vague idea of how, but I think it will work. As the song says, after all, "every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end." I actually ended up discussing fanfiction with the clerk at DVD Planet last night, when I was purchasing disc four of Tutu (they were sold out of five so he put in a reorder) and the director's cut of Kingdom of Heaven. It came up because Goonies was playing on the TV behind him and I have this vague urge to cross over Goonies and Pirates of the Caribbean. It's do-able... either One-Eyed Willie meets up with Jack&Co. in PotC time, or... well, we know there are curses and such that would make having PotC charas swaggering around in modern time a viable option as well. The main problem for me would be writing Capt. Sparrow. Straight-forward characters are easy, but his motivations, mindset, and mannerisms are... well, chaotic, shall we say. But that idea's pretty low on Muse's list anyway.

Since I couldn't color-match my thread last night (though looking at it in the day, the one I thought was closest actually is so maybe the new white-light bulb actually does simulate daylight), I watched disc two of Princess Tutu. Mytho is developing a personality. I actually don't know why Ahiru likes him other than that he's the pretty/shiny/graceful thing. Fakir is more interesting to me at this point. And I'm still having minor issues with translations of a couple of the names. "Mytho" sounds like it should have been "Mute," though I'm willing to accept that one. Why "Kraehe," though, when it's a ballet anime and it should have been "Claire," I do not know.

*changes calendars* *goes to work*